My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.

I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.

I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.

Crooks aren't the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.